Tag Archives: eclipse

Learning IntelliJ

Posted by on January 29, 2011 2 comments

A couple months back I landed a free IntelliJIDEA license while attending the SATJUG.  I’ve it installed on my personal computer but just haven’t really used it.  Each time I start to hobby code my mouse instinctively hovers over the Eclipse icon.  It’s not that I’m against using a non-eclipse based IDE, it’s just that I hate trying to learn how to use a new IDE.  I learned how to use Eclipse because it was “the” IDEA at the time and it’s what I use at the office, well actually we use MyEclipse which I despise….  Everything I’ve read about IntelliJ has been positive and looks like I’ll like it, it’s now up to me to learn to use it.

I will learn to use IntelliJ. I will learn to use IntelliJ.  I will learn to use IntelliJ!

Android and the Missing GEN Folder

Posted by on October 23, 2009 17 comments

I’ve been playing around with Android now and so far it’s been a good experience save one really annoying thing.

Project ‘Project Name’ is missing required source folder: ‘gen’

Seriously?!  I mean come on, the folder is in the project for crying out loud!  Sadly I’m not the only one who has been plagued by this error.  Many Google searches later and still no hard-fast answer that.  I have found one thing that seems to help although it’s a pain to keep doing it over and over again….

  1. Delete the R.java file under the gen folder
  2. Refresh the project
  3. Build Project, not Clean

This, so far, seems to be the only way to consistently get rid of the missing gen folder message….

Edit:

It seems I’m getting more and more traffic to this post.  Christian provided the correct fix below on how to resolve the missing GEN folder in the comments below.  Set the Java version of the project to 1.6 and you’ll be troubled no more.  Thanks Christian.